This is a departure from my normal posts, a bonus for you all out there. I've run down the best albums of 2008 and grouped them into three lists: 1) The top 10, 2) The next 25 and 3) The 42 others. The top 10 are in no particular order, merely a group of the 10 albums that separated themselves from the rest of the pack. The next 25 list is full of albums that nearly made the top 10 but weren't quite good enough, again in no specific order. The other 42 were good albums, just not good enough, and again in no particular order. Read, discuss and get back at me with any thoughts:
the top 10
artist - album
what made milwaukee famous - what doesn’t kill us
someone still love you boris yeltsin - pershing
snow patrol - a hundred million suns
oasis - dig out your soul
kooks - konk
the hold steady - stay positive
the duke spirit - neptune
apples in stereo - electronic projects for musicians
tokyo police club - elephant shell
sun kil moon - april
the next 25
artist - album
wolf parade - at mount zoomer
weezer - weezer (the red album)
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
tokio hotel - scream
tapes n’ tapes - walk it off
republic tigers - keep color
okkervil river - the stand ins
nada surf - lucky
my morning jacket - evil urges
mates of state - re-arrange us
ludo - you’re awful, I love you
los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
the hush sound - goodbye blues
helio sequence - keep your eyes ahead
the futureheads - this is not the world
fleet foxes - fleet foxes
the dirtbombs - we have you surrounded
death cab for cutie - narrow stairs
the cure - 4:13 dream
copeland - you are my sunshine
the contrast - introducing the contrast: perfect disguise
coldplay - viva la vida or death and all his friends
british sea power - do you like rock music?
black keys - attack & release
augustana - can’t love, can’t hurt
the other 42
artist - album
keane - perfect symmetry
jakob dylan - seeing things
black mountain - in the future
the whigs - mission control
the weepies - hideaway
we are scientists - brain thrust mastery
tv on the radio - dear science
the ting tings - we started nothing
supergrass - diamond hoo ha
stephen malkmus & the jicks - real emotional trash
she & him - volume one
secondhand serenade - a twist in my story
raveonettes - lust lust lust
raconteurs - consolers of the lonely
r.e.m. - accelerate
presidents of the united states of america - these are the good times people
plain white t’s - big bad world
pillar - for the love of the game
peter moren - the last tycoon
people in planes - beyond the horizon
the old 97’s - blame it on gravity
the offspring - rise and fall, rage and grace
the myriad - with arrows, with poise
the magnetic fields - distortion
m83 - saturdays = youth
kings of leon - only by the night
jack johnson - sleeping through the static
hawk nelson - ….is my friend
gnarls barkley - the odd couple
the fratellis - here we stand
foxboro hot tubs - stop drop and roll!
foals - antidote
the breeders - mountain battles
bloc party - intimacy
black crows - warpaint
bell x1 - flock
ashes divide - keep telling myself it’s alright
anberlin - new surrender
alkaline trio - agony & irony
air traffic - fractured life
the killers - day & age
margot & the nuclear so and so’s
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